Hinge.



PATENTBD OUT. 9, 1906.

M. HAUSER.

HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.14. 1902.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed April 14, 1902. $erial No. 102,876.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN HAUSER, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the hanging of window-screens, stormwindows, and the like it often happens that the screen or window is not flush with the outer face of the door or window casing and that the stops are not uniformly placed. For these reasons it is impossible to use the ordinary hinge without making some alteration in either or both the screen and the casmg. I

My invention relates to means for overcoming the difficulties here pointed out; and its object is to provide a hinge for screens, storm-windows, and the like, the two hingeplates of which shall be adjustable in relation to each other in such manner that within certain limits the two plates may, respectively, be secured to any screen or door frame and to 'the door or window casing without alteration of either the frame or casing and notwithstanding the fact that the outer faces of these two parts lie in separated parallel planes.

Another difficulty encountered in the hanging of screens which are suspended by by their hinges from the top, so that the screen swings outwardly from the bottom, is that in order to adjust the hinge-plates so that the screen will swing true the workman must be outside the building, usually on a ladder. It will be seen that when the building is more than one or two stories in height this work is hard to perform.

A further object of my invention is to overcome this objection and to provide hinges for the purpose indicated which may be adjusted and from which the screen may be suspended by a workman from inside the window.

I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a windowcasing provided with a window-screen suspended at top from a pair of hinges constructed according to my invention and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, in which view the screen is shown in solid and in dotted lines in two positions, the dotted lines indicating the screen swung outwardly in detachable position.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both views in the drawings.

In the drawings, 1 is a hinge-plate to be secured to the face of a window or door frame by screws in' the usual manner. This plate has a socket or hook or equivalent device 2, by means of which it engages or is engaged by a pintle 3.

4 is a hinge-plate adapted to be secured, by

means of screws, in the usual manner to the outer face of the door or screen frame.-

From the outer edge of the plate 4 near its upper end projects outwardly at a-right angle to the plate a lug or wing 5. This lug is an extension of and is formed integral with the plate 4. j

6 is a flat arm which carries at its upper end the pintle 3 and at its lower end a pivotpin 7, projecting at a right angle from the arm and which engages a hole inthe part 5. The arm 6 carries a set-screw 8, tapped into the arm and which passes througha slot 9 in the part 5. The slot 9 is formed in the arc of a circle of which the pivot 7 is the center, the

arrangement being such that the arm 6 may swing on pivot 7, the ends of the slot 9 forming stops for the screw 8. This arrangement permits the two hinge-plates to be swung before the set-screw is set up either into the same plane or into parallel planes. When the screw 8 is set up, the part 5 will be clamped between the head of the screw and the arm 6 and the arm will be rigidly held against movement on its pivot, so that now the plate 4 and its pivoted arm become practically a single member. The plate 4 is vertically slotted, and through this slot, as at 10, passes a set-screw 11.

The operation of my device is as follows: Assuming that the window-screen is to be suspended from the top of the frame of a lofty window, the upper window-sash is lowered and from the interior of the building the plates 1 are secured in place. The plates 4 are next temporarily secured in place by means of the set-screws 11, which are set up loosely in the slot 10, so that with a little pressure the plate may be moved lengthwise. The screw 8 is in like manner set up loosely in the slot 9, so that the arm 6 and the part 5 may, by a slight pressure, be moved upon each other. The screen is now passed out through the open window and elevated at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and the pintles 3 are slipped into the hooks 2. The screen being lowered and suspended from the hooks 2 may be forced, while in vertical position, inwardly or outwardly, as maybe desired, the pivot 7 and the loosened set-screw 8 permitting this horizontal adjustment. The screen-frame may also be slightly raised or lowered in a vertical plane, this adjust ment being obtainable by reason of the loosened set-screw 11 in'the vertical slot 10. Thus the screen is simply by the pressure of the hands of the operator adjusted so that it hangs horizontally and vertically at the desired point. The screen is again swung upwardly and slipped from the hooks 2 and taken in through the window. The setscrews 8 and 11 are set up tightly, (care being taken not to disturb the position of the arm or the which secure the plate 4 to the screen-frame, are put in place. The screen may now, as above described, be suspended from the hooks 2 with a certainty that the screen will occupy the proper position in relation to the window-frame both vertically and horizon tally. I have described the construction and adjustment of but a single hinge but it willof course be understood that these hinges are used in pairs in the usual manner.

It will be seen from the above description that by loosening the set-screw 8 the screen may be forced inwardly or outwardly, so that the outer face of the screen will lie either in they same plane with the face of the window-frame or in planes parallel therewith and that the sash may be raised or lowered within certain limits at either or both the upper corners.

plate 4,) and the wood-screws,

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a hinge, a pair of hinge-plates, an arm pivotally connected at one end with one of said hinge-plates, pivotal connections for the other end of the arm and the other of said hinge-plates, and means for adjustably securing said arm against movement on the former of its said pivots.

2. In a hinge, an arm, a pintle at one end thereof, a hinge-plate adapted to receive said pintle, another hinge-plate having a lug upon and projecting at a right angle to said latter hingeplate, said lug having a curved slot near its upper edge, pivotal connections between the lug and the end of the arm opposite the pintle, and a set-screw tapped into the arm through said slot and adapted to clamp the lug and the arm in adjusted relation to each other.

3. In a hinge, a hinge-plate, means for adjustably securing said plate in operative position, another hinge-plate, pivotal connections between said two hinge-plates, and means for the adjustment of said two hingeplates relatively to each other in parallel planes.

4. A hinge comprising a hinge-plate having a pintle-socket, another hinge-plate slotted longitudinally and having a lug projecting at a right angle thereto, an arm pivoted at one end to said lug and having at its other end a pintle adapted to engage said pintlesocket, and means for securing the arm and the lug in adjusted relation, comprising a setscrew tapped into one of said members and passing through a corresponding slot in the other member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN HAUSER.

Witnesses:

J. H. AINSWORTH, L. E. BROWN. 

